Thursday, 8 August 2013

Typo Bag

I could not resist this funky typewriter fabric while I was visiting Tikki Patchwork. I had an orange portable when I went off to university in 1972 - just like this one. How things have moved on. We are now calling these machines "vintage".

I did not have a plan, but I am thinking about my next large project so I needed something to get on with. I also wanted to try Paula Doyle's method for piecing smallish squares. The typewriter fabric would do for the lower striped section, and I found I already had some ice cream coloured solids for the squared section.Paula Doyle's book Mini Mosaic Quilts has a printed grid which you use to position your squares on lightweight interfacing - this worked rather well although cutting the interfacing and opening up the seams was a bit fidly. And my seams were off - less than 1/4 inch - so the pieced section ended up bigger than the typewriter section.

Here's the finished pouch. And I still have a bit left from the FQ for another project - might be good for a vintage v.modern iPad case.